The American Lawyer has updated its list of AmLaw 200 law firms by percentage layoffs since January, 2008. More than 3,067 attorney jobs have been cut, or 2.75%. Here are the top five, as of today: Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft: 36.3% Dechert LLP: 14.6% Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe: 14.3% McKee Nelson: 13.3% White & Case: 13.0%
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 23, 2009
A new study by management consultant firm KermaPartners reveals that increasingly, law firm partners are taking jobs with less profitable firms in search of job security. KermaPartners examined 240 lateral partner moves at Am Law 200 law firms in Q1 2009. Seventy percent moved to firms with lower profits-per-partner. In Q1 2008, 46% of lateral partners moved [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The Chicago office of Philadelphia’s Cozen O’Connor is recruiting, seeking to double its attorney workforce. Next year the office will move into a new, much larger space vacated by Skadden. The firm is recruiting corporate lawyers and commercial litigators. Cozen O’Connor PC is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was ranked 114th on the AmLaw 200 Survey in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 22, 2009
The American Lawyer has assembled a list of AmLaw 200 law firms by percentage layoffs since January, 2008. More than 2,900 attorney jobs have been cut, or 2.62%. Here are the top five, as of today: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft: 29.8% Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe: 14.3% McKee Nelson: 13.3% White & Case: 13.0% Dechert LLP: 11.8%
Continue reading...Monday, April 27, 2009
Quarles & Brady LLP is launching a new practice group specializing in clean energy, climate change and sustainability law. Over 50 attorneys from the firm’s offices in Wisconsin, Arizona and Illinois will form the new practice. Quarles & Brady LLP is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to the National Law Journal’s 2007 rankings, it is the 90th [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 20, 2009
Lawyers from the Washington, DC and Boston offices of now-defunct Wolf Block will join the Columbia, South Carolina office of Nelson Mullins. Those resurfacing at Nelson Mullins include five Boston partners, including Wolf Block Public Strategies CEO Robert Crow; two associates and two lobbyists from Boston; and a lobbyist from Washington. Crowe was co-chairperson for finance for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 9, 2009
San Francisco-based intellectual property firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew has laid off 16 attorneys, 45 staff. From the memo: …Townsend today has joined so many other AmLaw 200 firms and implemented a reduction in force. This is the most painful decision any of us has ever had to make at this firm… As a result, today we [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 6, 2009
The rumors were confirmed today: Cozen O’Connor announced it will bring on 30 attorneys from dissolving Wolf Block. The Wolf Block attorneys will add to the more than 60 lawyers Cozen O’Connor already has in the Big Apple. Cozen O’Connor PC is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was ranked 114th on the AmLaw 200 Survey in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Essex County, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Donald Goldman has ruled that defunct law firm Ravin Sarasohn may sue Lowenstein Sandler over partner defections that killed the firm. The judge rejected Lowenstein Sandler’s argument that a ruling in a related arbitration mandated dismissal of the claim. Ravin Sarasohn, a Roseland, New Jersey firm that had more than [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 23, 2009
Am Law 200 firms Covington & Burling, K&L Gates, Dickstein Shapiro, and McGuireWoods were among the law firms that made the most cash from lobbying in 2008, according to Legal Times’ annual listing of the “Influence 50.” But Akin Gump came in first place, with $98 million in lobbying revenues in 2008, up 9% from 2007. Covington [...]
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